Routine destruction of FBI records has hampered at least one killing from the civil rights era that agents are investigating.
Since 2006, the FBI has investigated more than 100 killings from that e ...Read more

On the back roads taken by James Earl Ray prior to killing Martin Luther King Jr., a number of calls were made from pay phones to Mississippi, FBI records show.
Stuart Wexler and Larry Hancock, ...Read more

James Earl Ray knew of a $100,000 bounty being offered by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi to kill Martin Luther King Jr. before Ray escaped from a Missouri prison, FBI records sh ...Read more

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